Double double, less toil and trouble… FME has always had tricks for optimizing your workflows, and FME 2017 has a few more up its sleeve. Learn about faster reading and filtering of tabular data, better ways to preserve system resources, pulling data directly from a web page, and more.

1. FME Workbench
Performance Tips
& Tricks

2. Double, Double
Less Toil, Less Trouble
GIS professionals are
finding themselves
tasked with doing double
the work in half the time!
Luckily, FME is designed to
magically ease that burden.

3. Problem: The
Deadline Dragon
Only FME stands between you and being roasted by your clients …

4. Solution: The
Performance Pixies
… FME 2017 boasts the best pixie powers yet

5. Performance
Goals
ü Create an FME
solution faster
than ever.
ü Execute it faster
than ever.

6. Performance Highlights for
FME 2017
“Turn to Page 394”

7. A Quick List
● Remodeled CSV Reading
● Improved Attribute Management
● Better List Handling
● Enhanced Polygon Dissolving
● Faster FeatureReader
Workflows
● Empowered Reading
of Data From Web Sources

8. In Action
“It’s still magic, even if you know how it’s done”

9. Goal: Add geographical information to the list
of FME World Tour stops.

10. Steps
1. Read a Geographical Names CSV Dataset
2. Filter the Geographical Names Data for a List of Cities Only
3. Read the Current List of FME World Tour Events
4. Merge the FMEWT Event with its Country Code
5. Match the FMEWT Event to its Host City
6. Ensure the Correct Location is chosen for each Event

11. Here’s the workspace
to solve that problem.

12. 2016
• Read Data: 1 minute 35 seconds
• Read/Filter: 1 minute 36 seconds
2017
• Read Data: 8.3 seconds
• Read/Filter: 14.1 seconds
Processing Times

13. Summary
Performance in Creation
• Attributes to Read
• List Element Selection
• HTML Table Reader
• Select Source from Web
• Modeless Parameter Dialogs
• Quick Add Readers/Writers
• User Parameter Copy/Paste
• Open Containing Folder
Performance in Execution
• Attributes to Read
• List Element Selection
• Feature Table Formats
• Feature Table Transformers
• Faster Polygon Dissolving
• Faster FeatureReader

14. Questions?
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